The Occupy Chicago protestors emphasize justice for all while the religious right focus on liberty for all. Ideally, the two should be held in a creative, dialectical tension. The reason I sympathize with the Occupy Chicago people is because right now I think our society leans too far away from justice and too far towards freedom.

The business community seems ready to canonize the former CEO of Apple a day after his death and make him St. Steve. Sure, he was a genius, but I fear there's a dark side to his work that no one is naming.

It continues to amaze me that I can see myself more clearly by looking through the lens of another culture than I can by observing myself in a mirror. We may be the most powerful nation on earth, but that doesn’t mean we are the wisest or the happiest.